Topic 4: Interactive White Boards
Topic 4: Is the SmartBoard Worth the Cost?
Advantages (LT)
- For Students
- Increased participation
- Increased motivation
- Opportunity to delve into complex and abstract subjects
- For Teachers
- Flexibility
- Multiple Resources
- Reaches multiple and diverse students
Disadvantages (LT)
- For Students
- Quickly lose appeal
- Less time on content
- One note lessons
- For Teachers
- Technical issues
- Teacher Training – stewardship
- Shifts attention from student to technology
Effectiveness of Smart Board Technology: (SC)
- as a tool for non-linear learning;
- combines the benefits of interactive computer use with group learning;
- as a tool for multi-modal teaching;
- as a tool for teaching children with disabilities
Effective Use of Smart Board Technology: (SC)
- must have adequate training and time to find appropriate software;
- must be an integral part of the lesson, not something tacked on to be fun
Recommendations for integration of smart boards into K-12 classroom instruction]
Integrating into K-12 classes
- Special Needs classes
- Gives students extra time to study
- Plenty of resources and teaching assistance
- Example of my sister who suffered a TBI and how a Smartboard who have helped
- Using different colors in presentations
- The use of colors appeals to different learning styles
- Teachers can highlight positive and negative aspects of student essays
- Visually enhances notes
- Saving notes
- Help students catch up if they miss a day of class, which enables them to not fall behind in class
- Students can review notes before a big test
- Students can use the notes to assist them in homework
- Students can access notes at home through the teacher's class website
- Substitute teachers
- Teachers can easily prepare notes if they know they will be absent.
- Teachers can video record notes for that day
- Assisting parents
- Parents can access notes at home which helps them understand what their child is learning
- Keeps the students accountable for what they are learning
- Parents can help their children study (such as students with Special Needs)
- Access to the Internet
- Internet is at the teacher's fingertip, which will not disrupt the flow of class
- History teachers can access speeches given by political leaders
- Presidential election videos and debates
- Speeches given at the United Nation
- Foreign language teachers can access international websites
- Mathematics teachers can access websites that rely on statistics
- Engaging students
- Gets students more involved in class
- More likely to learn the required material
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